West Virginia Code § 22-36-1

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Unless the context in which used clearly requires a different meaning, as used in this article:
(1) "Authority" means the Water Development Authority provided for in §22C-1-4 of this
code.
(2) "Capacity development" means the technical, managerial, and financial capability of a
public water system.
(3) "Cost" means the cost of all labor, materials, machinery, equipment, lands, property,
rights and easements, plans and specifications, and all other expenses necessary or incident
to the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension, repair, or rehabilitation
of all or part of a project.
(4) "Disadvantaged community" means the service area of a public water system that meets
affordability criteria established after public reviewl and comment by the state.
(5) "Federal Safe Drinking Water Act" means the federal statute commonly known as the
Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq., as enacted, amended, and as may be
subsequently amended.
(6) "Fund" means the West Virginia Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund created in
this article.
(7) "Instrumentality" meLans the Department of Environmental Protection which has the
primary responsibility for administering the fund and this article pursuant to requirements
of the federal Safe D rinking Water Act.
(8) "Local entity" means any municipality, public utility, or person, including any individual,
firm, partnership, association, not-for-profit corporation, or other corporation organized and
exisWting under the laws of the state which may construct and operate an eligible project.
(9) "Public water system" means that term as defined in §16-1-9a of this code.
(10) "Project" means a project for improving a drinking water system for the purpose of
achieving or maintaining compliance with applicable state and federal drinking water
regulations.
(11) "Set-aside accounts" means those accounts that shall be set up for activities required by
the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. The moneys for these accounts may be taken from the
federal capitalization grant for these non-project activities before the capitalization grant is
deposited into the fund.
(12) "Small system" means a public water system serving 10,000 or fewer persons.

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